Like so many I never met Kev but we did correspond many years ago. I can’t remember the occasion but we did discover that we both shared a huge admiration for J Hubert Walker, the author of the original “Walking in the Alps”. The first mountains I ever saw were the wonderful photos that JHW had on the walls of the room where he taught geography when I was a schoolboy in the 1950’s. His black and white photos taken on a plate camera opened my eyes to the hills and Kev shared my youthful enthusiasm for images and words that turned out to be life enhancing.
I have lost count of the routes I have walked that Kev described and every one has been a winner. His knowledge was amazing and his judgements impeccable. Other guide book writers are simply in a different league. We shan’t see his like again.
We have all lost a friend.